How to Organize Hair Accessories

Are your bathroom drawers a hodgepodge of ponytail holders, bobby pins and styling products with the color and consistency of a science project gone wrong? Don't let poorly organized accessories give you a bad hair day. Follow the useful guidelines below to keep hair accessories accessible, styling aids styling and both out of the way.

Things You'll Need

• Storage containers
• Hair accessories

Instructions

1. Hunt and gather. Chances are your pony tail holders, bobby pins, and other accessories are ****tered about the house. Track down all your hair accessories, hair products and styling aids and form a pile.

2. Separate hair accessories from hair products.

3. Throw away broken clips, outdated pieces and stretched out ponytail holders.

4. Dispose of styling products that are over 2 years old.

5. Decide where to keep your hair accessories and styling products. While the bathroom is the most likely place, consider bedroom dressing areas as well.

6. Store hairspray and other styling products in bathroom cabinets.

7. Clip pony tail holders onto a shower curtain ring to keep them all together and easily accessible.

8. Select or create a holder for bobby pins that can lay flat in a drawer or container for space-saving storage.

9. Keep hair accessories in a functional, catch-all container. Tackle boxes, tool chests and craft kits come equipped with compartments and are easy to stow away.

Tips & Warnings

• Hang a long ribbon to hold bobby pins and barrettes.

• Use plastic storage containers to hold ribbons, barrettes and other items.

• Hit a five and dime store for cheap storage solutions.

• Consider transferring hairspray to attractive spray bottles for display purposes.

• Keep your collection manageable. The only thing worse than owning too many hair accessories is not wearing the hair accessories you own because they're buried amongst clutter.

• Dispose of hair dye that is more than one year old.